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Oxford English Dictionary

Author : John A. Simpson

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : pages

File Size : 22,13 MB

Release : 2002-04-18

Category : Reference

ISBN : 9780195218893

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Book Description

The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the present day. The Dictionary defines over 500,000 words, making it an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, pronunciation, and history of the English language. This new upgrade version of The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM offers unparalleled access to the world's most important reference work for the English language. The text of this version has been augmented with the inclusion of the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series (Volumes 1-3), published in 1993 and 1997, the Bibliography to the Second Edition, and other ancillary material. System requirements: PC with minimum 200 MHz Pentium-class processor; 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended); 16-speed CD-ROM drive (32-speed recommended); Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 200, or XP (Local administrator rights are required to install and open the OED for the first time on a PC running Windows NT 4 and to install and run the OED on Windows 2000 and XP); 1.1 GB hard disk space to run the OED from the CD-ROM and 1.7 GB to install the CD-ROM to the hard disk: SVGA monitor: 800 x 600 pixels: 16-bit (64k, high color) setting recommended. Please note: for the upgrade, installation requires the use of the OED CD-ROM v2.0.



The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Author : Peter Gilliver

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 688 pages

File Size : 45,54 MB

Release : 2016-09-22

Category : History

ISBN : 0191009687

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Book Description

This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. The author, uniquely among historians of the OED, is also a practising lexicographer with nearly thirty years' experience of working on the Dictionary. He has drawn on a wide range of sources-including previously unexamined archival material and eyewitness testimony-to create a detailed history of the project. The book explores the cultural background from which the idea of a comprehensive historical dictionary of English emerged, the lengthy struggles to bring this concept to fruition, and the development of the book from the appearance of the first printed fascicle in 1884 to the launching of the Dictionary as an online database in 2000 and beyond. It also examines the evolution of the lexicographers' working methods, and provides much information about the people-many of them remarkable individuals-who have contributed to the project over the last century and a half.



The Compact Oxford English Dictionary

Author : J. A. Simpson

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 2386 pages

File Size : 24,29 MB

Release : 1991

Category : Reference

ISBN : 9780198612582

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Book Description

The standard dictionary of the English language micrographically printed in one volume



Lost for Words

Author : Lynda Mugglestone

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 310 pages

File Size : 11,38 MB

Release : 2005-01-01

Category : History

ISBN : 9780300106992

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Book Description

Examines the hidden history through which the Oxford English Dictionary came into being in a study that traces the personal battles involved in chronicling an ever-changing language.



The Meaning of Everything

Author : Simon Winchester

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 294 pages

File Size : 41,88 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780192805768

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"We visit the ugly corrugated iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium -- the Scrippy or the Shed, as locals called it -- and meet some of the legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall, a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED, to W.C. Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, and ultimate redemption. The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project -- a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the world's unrivaled uber-dictionary. Book jacket."--Jacket.



Words of the World

Author : Sarah Ogilvie

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 261 pages

File Size : 37,27 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1107021839

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Book Description

Demonstrates that the Oxford English Dictionary is an international product in both its content and its making.



Oxford Dictionary of English

Author : Angus Stevenson

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 2093 pages

File Size : 42,11 MB

Release : 2010-08-19

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 0199571120

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Book Description

The Oxford Dictionary of English offers authoritative and in-depth coverage of over 350,000 words, phrases, and meanings. The foremost single-volume authority on the English language.



Pocket Oxford English Dictionary

Author : Catherine Soanes

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 18,97 MB

Release : 2002

Category : English language

ISBN : 9780198605713

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Book Description

This is a reissue of the ninth edition of the world's longest-established and best-selling pocket English dictionary. It is one of the new generation Oxford dictionaries derived from the database of the highly-acclaimed New Oxford Dictionary of English and is particularly user friendly withits elegant open design, with different elements starting on new lines. It offers excellent coverage of English as an international language, the defining style is straightforward and non-technical, and thousands of examples illustrate idiomatic usage. All irregular noun, verb, and adjectivalinflections are spelled out in full, while guidance on grammar and good usage is provided by in-text notes. Additional features include Wordbuilder boxes giving information on related words and thematic tables on subjects such as countries, chemical elements, and nationalities. This title replacesISBN: 0-19-861334-2.



Pocket Oxford English Dictionary

Author : Maurice Waite

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 1104 pages

File Size : 39,10 MB

Release : 2013-05-09

Category : Reference

ISBN : 0199666156

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Book Description

This dictionary offers coverage of English as an international language, the defining style is straightforward and non-technical, and thousands of examples illustrate idiomatic usage.



Oxford Dictionary of Current English

Author : Oxford University Press

Publisher : OXFORD University Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 30,22 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 9780198614371

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Book Description

Provides definitions of words in contemporary use in English-speaking countries throughout the world, with examples of idiomatic uses, guides to irregular forms, notes on grammar and preferred usage, and lists of related terms.